Hey everyone! My name's Peter. Been a member of MMM since mid-October. Insider member since Xmas (it's currently January 2015). 

First off: I want to thank you, John, for this course. Super major Cyber-Fist Bump/Hug is in order. It's truly been eye opening. I was getting pretty down about how things were going as a musician. Didn't seem to be any real way to catch a break. Then I came across this on my birthday, actually. Turned 30, saw a MMM Facebook ad. It was like an omen.  The best kind.  

I've so far had great success on my Squeeze page and ad campaigns on Facebook. 

I've made two identical campaigns/Squeeze pages that are both currently operating at a whopping >100%! Here's a link to the Squeeze: http://www.patchbandmusic.com/.....racks-main

My ad says:
"NINE INCH NAILS FANS
If you're a fan of Trent Reznor then you have to hear this new Deathpop band." The pic is a closeup dramatic pic of my face.

I've named a genre that is enticing (or enraging) to people: Deathpop. It was a loose term by the band Orgy in the late 90's, but it hardly has any connotation to anything of relevance, currently. So that helped people submit. And fans of NIN are loyal and rabid, clamoring for anything Trent Reznor related. 

Ads and Squeeze pages are swell, to say the least. I spent a wee bit too much on the campaigns, excited by the response I was seeing. But, Jesus, I lost $140 altogether. Didn't know how to play the game. The latest one, my conversion costs were good, but I'm not seeing the sales I'd need to recoup my costs . . . 

My email series needs a bit of work. I've got 500 subscribers and 13 buyers, 6 of them through my Bundle. The others were through Bandcamp on my Facebook page. So, really, 6 people took to my emails. (I initially made it so people couldn't buy through Bandcamp due to them not getting on my Customer list, but I realized a lot of people wanted to buy through an outlet they've come to trust. I made more money once I opened it up again. Not sure this is the best practice, but they're still on my initial mailing list.)

People are opening my emails, to an extent. And when they do, they don't click on the Bundle links. So I've got to work on my copy. Make it a bit more personal. I realized the tone changed halfway through the email series. They're pretty much copied verbatim to John's examples (emails 4,5,6). I had a couple responses saying "I feel like I'm being hustled." And I've shortened the email list from 6 to 5. My crazy story blog (my version of John's "I Killed Johnny Cash") felt unnecessary and led people to respond "You're sending me too many emails."

I initially got 100 unsubscribers in the first campaign. Oof. After my reduction: 4 in the second campaign. So, that worked!

But now it's my copy, especially in the Bundle emails.

I'm fervently working on free content, writing five articles a week (it takes me pretty long to write an article. I'm a perfectionist.). Posting to EzineArticles, ArticlesBase, AreaVoices. HubPages is a pain in the ass. You can't really link to your website. They're pretty good about spotting that. AND you can't post articles that you've published elsewhere. They'll ban you. I've been formally warned

GoArticles went down this past weekend, ironically. That was the easiest to post at.

Looking into MyBlogGuest now, and another one John linked to in one of his monthly training sessions about SEO in 2014. Something Troubadour. Going to also work at guest blogging and YouTube vids. 

Have yet to make my Upsell page, but that's on the docket for this week.

Hopefully, and this is a BIG hopefully, if I make content 5 days a week, break even on all my campaigns on Facebook, I can go full time musician by late summer.  

Thanks again for this, John! I'll post updates if people are interested.